Row crops enjoying improved season

1:31 AM,
Jun. 26, 2013

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Telegraph-Forum staff report

The state's row crops, especially corn, are in dramatically better shape this week than they were last year at this time, when a badly timed drought was just starting to tighten its grip on Ohio.

Despite scattered storms, weather conditions have been largely benign, allowing for mostly uninterrupted work in the fields.

"Producers made significant progress on fieldwork this week due to the combination of low precipitation and favorable temperatures throughout the state," according to the latest crop weather report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural ...